"Useful to the Mind": Ade Bethune's Illustrations for The Catholic Worker, 1934-1945

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dc.contributor.advisorPromey, Sally M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorNorton, Rachel E.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-06-14T06:06:56Z
dc.date.available2006-06-14T06:06:56Z
dc.date.issued2006-05-07en_US
dc.description.abstractAde Bethune made illustrations for The Catholic Worker newspaper, the publication of the Catholic Worker movement, from 1933 through 1945. These illustrations served multiple functions. Obvious, expected functions included increasing the publication's appeal to potential readers, and reiterating the messages delivered in the text. However, the drawings' more interesting and unique function was to serve as dual models of the kind of lifestyle Bethune espoused. The illustrations both demonstrated this lifestyle through the depicted images, and acted as witnesses or artifacts of Bethune's own practice. Bethune caused her drawings to fulfill these functions by carefully and self-consciously selecting subjects and styles that most effectively communicated, either explicitly or through evocation. Her drawings, which blend modernist abstraction with a romanticized medievalism, are an historically significant example of the impact of the Liturgical Arts movement in America.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/3597
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt Historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledReligion, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAde Bethuneen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCatholic Workeren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledillustrationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLiturgical Artsen_US
dc.title"Useful to the Mind": Ade Bethune's Illustrations for The Catholic Worker, 1934-1945en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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